Entry № 4021 · Arabic origin

Hamida Hamida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-MEE-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Praiseworthy (Akbar's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "praiseworthy (akbar's mother)".

Hamida (حميدة) is the Arabic word for "praiseworthy." Hamida Banu Begum (c. 1527-1604) was the Persian wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun and mother of Akbar the Great — bore Akbar in exile in Sindh and shaped his cosmopolitan upbringing.

Held immense respect in the Mughal court.

Praiseworthy. The Persian mother of Akbar the Great.

The name in its native script.

حميدة
Transliteration
Ḥamīda
Pronunciation
/ həˈmiː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hamida stands.

Hamida does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hamidas before her.

Real people
Hamida Banu Begum
Mother of Akbar the Great.
c. 1527 – 1604
In fiction
Hamida
Common in Mughal historical fiction.

Names connected to Hamida.

The number behind Hamida.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hamida reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.